TEST

Today we took a test in Western Civ. Today.  It was open note but we could only look at our blog.  It was kind of easy so I think I did pretty well on it.  There is not much more to say on what we did today because all we did was take the test.   That was the last test of the third quarter.  Not sure what else to write because this has to be about one hundred words.  So hopefully this paragraph will be about one hundred words.  So I hope this is good enough to get full credit !(:

Ancient Greek Movie 5

• Athenians were now looking for a new leader
• Pericles
• Leader at the height of power
• Wanted to glorify Athens
• Liked democracy
• Even thought he was a rich aristocrat
• Wanted to make a city fit to rule an empire
• Wanted Athens to be the best city in Greece

• Acropolis
• They temples that used to stand there were burnt down by the Persians many years a go
• Pericles wanted to reconstruct a Parthenon

• Parthenon
• Parthenon , in its time, was the most beautiful building ever built
• Today it would cost a billion dollars to build
• Put many people to work- artisans, builders, etc…
• Would require 20 thousand tons of marble
• First thing you see is a statue that is bigger than this school
• Frieze chiseled partial statue
• Everyone that shows up to Athens is astonished when they see it

• Aspasia
• Pericles - prostitute
• Relationship was frowned upon
• Pericles treat her as an equal
• Pericles was still married
• He completely falls in love with her
• She is an intelligent, bright, and charming
• Ended up getting married with her after he divorced his wife

• Worlds first theatre lies in the center of the acropolis
• Home of popular entertainment
• Some stories  were about a man marrying his own mother and having children
• Greeks invented drama
• Fatal flaw- otherwise very good people making very bad decisions, falling from the heights in some aspect of their life.

• Oedipus
• Early age was taken away from his parents
• Lived his life and achieved greatness
• Solved the mystery of the sphinx

• Greek tragedies showed what they were thinking about and what kind of things they made plays about showed them who they were.
• Pericles - a man with a fatal flaw
• Hubris- arrogance and pride
• 431 B.C  -wants to go to war with Sparta, only city state that still matched Sparta with power

Ancient Greek movie 4

• Themistocles
• Example of effective democracy in Athens
• Doesn’t come from the inner circle that had traditionally ruled
• Not a traditional aristocratic upbringing
• He knows how to make a city great
• Show himself to be one of histories greatest leaders
• Savior of his city
• Recognize the Persians are still a danger
• They would not be beat again
• Trireme- state of the art ship technology that was lightweight and was used to ram the enemy's ship.
• The front of the boat that sticks out
• They would get very good speed with the rows on the side of ship and ram into the other boats
• Soldiers would be rowing the boat
• They were very expensive
• 483 B.C
• Athenians found a lot of silver
• Worth a lot
• Athenians anted to divide the riches between themselves
• Themistocles  wanted to use the money for new ships
• Convinces them that it is to protect against local enemy but in reality it was against the possible Persian attack

• Persian king died and Xeroxes took his place
• He wants to burn Athens to the ground
• He will not rest until it happens

• Persian empire set of for Athens  480 B.C
• Xeroxes was confident for defeating them
• Phase 2 of the Persian wars
• First time they were surprisingly beat at Marathon

• Oracles could see into the future
• Communicate with the gods
• Reading stars, patterns of birds, other weird things

• Oracle at Delphi - best position best communication of gods
• Archeologist have discovered questions written in the stone
• Athenians needed to know what they could do to save themselves
• Told them that to Athenians were doomed and they should leave
• To them it seemed like even the gods had deserted them
• Themistocles read the oracle and interpreted it differently
• He wants to fight the Persians at sea
• Salamis
• He evacuated all of Athens and ordered them into exile

• Plan is to still beat the Persians at sea
• The strait of salamis
• A guy bailed on the Greeks and sold them out to the Persians and told them what was going on

• In the end the Greeks win
• Athenians are now on the road to becoming a superpower
• Delian League
• Athens empire
• No interested in conquering other places
•  interested in looked out each other and themselves

• Athenians were turning on Themistocles because he was reminding them of all the taxes the owed
• Never recovered from his humiliation
• Died in exile

Ancient Greek Movie 3

• Hippias's brother was killed
• He got mad and started killing people and taking away their rights for no reason
• Thought everyone was trying to seize his power( he was paranoid) 

• Clisthenes 510 B.C too over after he fought Hippias and won.
• he was now one of the most powerful leaders in Athens
• As soon as he gained power other people were conspiring against him
• Hisagerios was another Athenian aristocrat
• Was brought up to believe he was born to have power
• Wants to take over Athens and wants Sparta to help him
• Going to rule on top of the acropolis

•  An aristocrat could now race against a potter or other men
• Largest gathering of Greeks in peace
• 40,000 Greeks would gather
• Clisthenes agonized in exile
• They attacked the acropolis and the regular people rose up against their leader and overthrew him

• Athens is now in control
• The ordinary people with out leadership
• What happens now?
• They ask Clisthenes to be the leader
• The citizens  of Athens could now discuss the future of Athens
• The Agora
• Where they met and had meetings and discuss issues and explain what they wanted to do next
• System of government that  we now know as democracy
• Talk about raising taxes or building roads
• These Athenians would face many troubles against invasion, war, and conflict

• 480 BC Pheidippedes
• He was a citizen of Athens
• Most astonishing athletic accomplishment
• Runs , not for glory but for freedom
• Ran 140 miles in 2 days
• His hometown was about to be conquered by Persian empire
• Athens was gaining power so the Persians would have to destroy them
• Struggle between freedom and slavery
• Athenians fought with sticks stones and arrows
• Hoplites were soldiers that the Athenians that had their own armor and were prepared to fight
• They gathered 10,000 hoplites
• Athenians were outnumber 2-1
• Athenians hurt 6,000 Persians
• Greeks won their first battle as a democracy

Ancient Greek Movie 2 (Crucible of Civilization)

• Thing in the front of boats they would uses to crash into other ships and sink them

• 508 B.C ordinary people turn on their leaders

• Cleisthenes wanted regular people to govern themselves
• Aristocrat , member of the ruling class

• Acropolis- the out cropping of rock where Athens was founded
• Built the town on it and around it

• Reading and writing was a rare skill
• Not that the people were slaves, they were just treated really badly, although they were free
• Couldn’t marry your way up, once you were in a class there was no changing it

• World driven by injustice
• Greece was divided into city-states
• Each very independent
• Athens
• Sparta

• Sparta
• Spartans brought up from birth to be soldiers
• Raised in field
• Separated form families
• Life's built around war
• Lived a life with few possessions except weapons and clothes
• Conquered more than 4,000 square miles
• There food was horrible, that’s why they were willing to die because they hated that food
• No luxuries, no comfort
• They were the greatest army

• They were inspired by their stories

• Traveling men who were paid to recite there stories

• One man seizes control of government, called a tyrant
• Rise of pesitriites, see the more agriculture, more vines and olives
• Eastern Mediterranean, best market place
• Seemed like everyone had something to trade
• Athenians found their wealth to be on the rise

• The vase is Athens first artistic piece of history
• Not that important at the time

• Homer wrote the Iliad  and the Odyssey

• Tyrant- someone who takes control
• Priestesses is Clisthenes brother in law

• Had the Olympic games
• The games were based of the powers of  gods
• No real prize just, the fame you would receive
• A woman could now race against a potter or other men
• Largest gathering of Greeks in peace
• 40,000 Greeks would gather

• How could Athens escape from all the violence elsewhere?

• Athens is now in control by everyone, the common, ordinary people that once they were in control they turned to one man, Clisthenes
• Started a system of democracy
• Gather every nine days to bring up issues and topics that they needed to discuss to build their economy

Ancient Greece Powerpoint

• Peloponnesian peninsula

• Greece Geography
• Mountains cover 3/4 of Greece(hard to move around by land)
• 1,400 islands in Aegean and Ionian Seas
• Location shaped its culture
• Very skilled soldiers
• Poor natural resources
• Hard to unite the Greeks because of the terrain( they developed small communities)
• 20% of Greece is fertile land for farming
• Greeks diet consists of grains, grapes, olives.
• Temps. range from 48 in winter to 80 in the summer

• Mycenaean
• Began around 2000 B.C
• Mycenae is located on a rocky ridge and protected by a 20 ft. thick wall
• Mycenaean kings dominated Greece from 1600-1200 B.C
• Controlled trade in the region
• 1400 B.C Mycenaean's invaded Crete and absorbed Minoan culture and language

• Culture in Decline
• 1200 B.C sea people invade Mycenaean and burnt palace after palace
• Dorian's moved into the war-torn region
• Far less advanced
• Economy collapsed
• Writing disappeared for 400 years
• Except they told stories to each other and that’s how the history was transmitted from each generation

• Homer and Myths
• Only stories kept and passed on by word of mouth
• Homer lives at the end of "Greek dark ages"
• Recorded stories of Trojan War, Iliad and the Odyssey
• Trojan war was one of the last conquests on the Mycenaean

• Greek Concepts
• Arête
• Virtue and excellence
• Epics
• Narrative poems celebrating heroic deeds
• Myths were created to explain creation
• Zeus: leader of the gods
• Hera: Zeus' wife
• Athena: goddess of wisdom

Ancient Greek Movie

• Athens, in mainland Greece.

•  People were rebelling and demanding freedom from centuries  of oppression.

• Clisthenes- brought up from birth to be a ruler
• He was born around 570 BC
• Taught he was an aristocrat

• Athens is in the center of a Mediterranean peninsula ( now Greece)
• Town was built around a strong rock wall, easy to defend themselves against other enemies

• Life expectancy at birth was less than 15 years

• Common people lived under the rules of aristocrats
• Greece was divided into city-states
• Each very independent

• Sparta
• Spartans brought up from birth to be soldiers
• Raised in field
• Separated form families
• Life's around war
• Lived a life with few possessions except weapons and clothes
• Conquered more than 4,000 square miles

• Inspired by their stories, ancient myths

• Traveling men who were paid to recite there stories

• One man seizes control of government, called a tyrant

• Rise of pesitriites, see the more agriculture, more vines and olives

• Eastern Mediterranean, best market place
• Seemed like everyone had something to trade
• Athenians found their wealth to be on the rise

• The vase is Athens first artistic piece of history
• Not that important at the time

• Had the Olympic games
• The games were based of the powers of  gods
• No real prize just, the fame you would receive
• A woman could now race against a potter or other men
• Largest gathering of Greeks in peace
• 40,000 Greeks would gather

• How could Athens escape from all the violence elsewhere?

• Athens is now in control by everyone, the common, ordinary people that once they were in control they turned to one man, Clisthenes

• Started a system of democracy
• Gather every nine days to bring up issues and topics that they needed to discuss to build their economy

Ancient Greece

Today in class we reviewed some more about ancient Greece.  Each person shared there slide on a certain topic.  As Mr.Schick read to us in the book and we came up to a part about someone's topic, they shared some details about it.   Here is a map of the area we are talking about.  

Greece

Today in class Mr. Schick read to us.  He read about ancient Greece and some famous people/ wars.  We started on a power point on ancient Greece.  My topic was on Peloponnese. And the Peloponnesian war. The Peloponnesian war was between Athens and the Athenian empire versus Sparta, Thebes, Corinth, and other members of the Peloponnesian Confederacy.  It began 4 April 431 B.C. and ended on 25 April 404 B.C 

Test

Today in class we took a test and ancient and modern Egypt.

Modern Egypt Review

• Economy
• Tourism
• Oil
•  natural gas
• Manufacturing
• Agriculture

• Demographics
• 79 million people
• Official Language- Arabic
• Religion- 90% Muslim

• Currently ruled by military junta

• Important Dates
• 1922 - end of protectorate with the U.K
• 1953 - Egypt declared a Republic
• 1954-1970 - ruled by Gamal Nasser
• forms allegiance with Soviet Union
• 1970-1981 - ruled by Anwar Sadat
• switches allegiance to the United States
• 1981-2011 - ruled by Hosni Mubarak
• Leader was driven out of office 

Ancient Egyptian Review -Part 2

• Money system may use bags of grain for payment
• Scribes kept record and told stories
• They wrote in hieroglyphs and hieratic

• Soldiers used wooden weapons with bronze tips

• Pharaohs
• Political and religious leaders of Egyptian people
• Owned all land, made laws, collected taxes, and defended against foreigners
• Hatshepsut was a women pharaoh
• Cleopatra was also a pharaoh

Ancient Egyptian Review

• Geography, daily life, pharaohs, gods and goddesses, pyramids. 

• GEOGRAPHY
• Centered around the Nile River
• Water for drinking, irrigating,  and bathing
• Every July it floods
• Ever October it leaves and behind rich soil. 
• First ones to figure out a solar based day, lunar based month, solar based year.
• Delta is a broad, marshy, triangular  area of feritle land
• Nile river flows SOUTH to NORTH .
• Managing the river required technology breakthroughs in irrigation

• Pyramids
• Great Sphinx of Giza
• Recumbent lion with a lions head
• Built 2555-2532 BC
• Oldest monumental statue in the world
• How people were subdivided in ancient Egypt ( sort of like a caste system)
• Slaves helped with wealthy (household or children duty)
• Farmers raised crops
• Artisans design statues etc.